TELEGRAM TO ALL REGIONAL AND GUBERNIA ECONOMIC CONFERENCES[1]

S.E.C. Chairman for all Departments and Branches of Industry, Copy to Central Statistical Board

Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXIII.

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      Moscow,Volume 45,

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Oneof the most important tasks of economic
construction, and undoubtedly the most pressing one just now, is
to reduce the number of establishments and enterprises on
state supply. Only a minimum of the largest, the bestequipped and organised enterprises, factories, plants and
mines should be left on state supply, with strict
verification of available resources. You are hereby ordered
immediately to carry out another check-up and to make another
reduction in the number of enterprises on state supply;
draw up right away a list of enterprises being left on state
supply, and send it on to theC.L.D.by October 1 of this
year.

Executionshall be the personal responsibility of all
members of economic councils, especially the Gubernia
Statistical Bureaus. I shall prosecute those who fail to
make sufficiently thorough reduction in the number of
enterprises.

LeninChairman, C.L.D.

September 12, 1921

[1]Atthe top of Lenin’s manuscript of the draft telegram a note    

in Lydia Fotieva’s hand says: “To Bogdanov, Bryukhanov and      

Avanesov for urgent comment.”